Welcome to the British History Podcast.

My name is Jamie and this is Episode 199, Athlete Red vs. Alfred, one of the most exciting

moments in probate history.

This show is free and independent due to member support and as thanks for helping keep

the community going, I offer members only content, including extra episodes and rough transcripts.

If you'd like to support the show and help us out, you can sign up over at the British

History Podcast dot com for about the price of a decent pint per month.

Or if you're in Scandinavia, the price of half a pint per month.

And thank you very much to Jody, Rachel and Dave, who I hope is a member of the four

Dave's, for signing up already.

OK, I'm back and you might be wondering what happened to me and it turns out a lot.

I wanted to do something special for the members, so I set up the BHP website so every

member would have their own personal login and would be able to read the transcripts directly

on the episodes, also access the members episode within the site and have your very own members

area.

Basically, I wanted to bring the site from 2004 all the way to, well, not really 2016,

let's be honest.

I was basically trying to bring it to about 2013.

So I coded like a maniac and it was looking pretty great and I was excited for you to take

advantage of a more user-friendly site.

Then I flipped the switch and all hell broke loose.

Since then, I've been working for the last week and a half putting out fires and doing

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